Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · John McAfees Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet was hacked by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2018
Andrei Tyurin, the man that is accused to be the responsible for major cyber attacks against financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, was extradited to the United States from Georgia. The Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin (35) was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday, the man charged over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2018
The popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails 3.9 is available online with the biggest updates this year. A new version of the popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails version 3.9 is available online, the privacy-oriented operating system gets its biggest update, many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2018
UK NCA arrested a member of the Apophis Squad hacker group that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many organizations, including ProtonMail. The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the arrest of the 19-year-old George Duke-Cohan from Hertfordshire that was involved in the ProtonMail DDoS attack. The teenager, aka “7R1D3N7,” “DoubleParallax” and “optcz1,”was arrested on August 31 and is still in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice charged a North Korea agent over WannaCry and 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack. The U.S. Department of Justice announces charges against a North Korean government spy that was involved in the massive WannaCry ransomware attack and the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. “the Justice Department charged on Thursday in a 174-page criminal complaint that detailed how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2018
Schneider Electric announced that some of the USB drives it has shipped with its Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products were infected with malware. Schneider Electric has found a malicious code on the USB drives that have been shipped with Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products. Both products are part of the solar energy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
Personal and payment card information of 380,000 British Airways customers were stolen by attackers, stolen data did not include travel or passport details. British Airways was hacked, customer personal and payment card information of 380,000 were stolen by attackers, the stolen data did not include travel or passport details. The company published a data breach notification […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
Security experts from ESET observed a treat actor, tracked as PowerPool, exploiting the recently disclosed Windows zero-day flaw in targeted attacks. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on August 27 by the security expert “@SandboxEscaper,” the researcher also published the exploit code for the vulnerability. The vulnerability affects Microsoft’s Windows operating systems that could be exploited by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
Cisco has released thirty security patch advisory to address a total of 32 security vulnerabilities in its products, including three critical flaws. Cisco released thirty security patch advisory to address a total of 32 security vulnerabilities in its products. The good news is that the tech giant is not aware of any exploitation of the addressed vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2018
The clothing chain C&A in Brazil suffered a cyber attack on its gift card/exchange system last week, hackers leaked data on Pastebin. The International fashion retail clothing chain C&A in Brazil suffered a data breach, the company confirmed hackers hit its gift card platform. Hackers accessed to records belonging to customers who purchased gift cards, exposed data includes ID […]
